Acorde de Children's Crusade - Sting

Intro: In Bm position pluck the three top strings.








 Verse 1:





    Bm         Bm        E             E


 Young men and soldiers, nineteen fourteen.





    Bm               Bm       E            E


 Marching through countries they'd  never seen





    Bm          Bm       E         E


 Virgins with rifles, a game of charades





     C        Bm           A


 All for a children's crusade








 Verse 2: Follow same format as verse 1





 Pawns in the game are not victims of chance


 Strewn on the fields of Belgium and France


 Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade


 All of those young lives betrayed








 Chorus:





    C             G             C         G


 The children of England would never be slaves





    C                  Bm                G


 They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves





     C          G       C            G


 The Flower of England face down in the mud


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     C              Bm                       G


 And stained in the blood of a whole generation





 Verse 3: follow same format as verse 1





 Corpulent generals safe behind lines


 History's lessons drowned in red wine


 Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade


 All of those young lives betrayed





 Instrumental solo





 Bass line during instrumental is:





 ocultar esta pesta�a E-----------------|      Repeat this throughout the instrumental


 B-----------------|


 G-----------------|


 D----0------------|


 A-0-2--0-2--------|


 E---------0-------|








 Repeat Chorus





 Verse 3: follow same format as in verse 1





 Midnight in Soho nineteen eighty-four


 Fixing in door ways, opium slaves


 Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade


 All of those young lives betrayed


 All for a children's crusade.





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